Analysis of Summer Sonata

Georg Trakl 1887 (Salzburg) – 1914 (Kraków)



Rotten fruits smell stunning.

Bushes and trees sound sunnily,

Swarms of black flies sing

On the brown forest glade.

In the pool's deep blueness

The light of weed-fires blazes.

Hear sudden love cries whirring

From yellow flower walls.

Butterflies chase themselves for a long time;

Drunkenly my shadow dances

On sultry meadows of thyme.

Brightly ecstacized blackbirds trill.

Clouds show stiff breasts,

And wreathed by foliage and berries

Under dark pines you see

A skeleton play the violin grinning.


Scheme A B A X X X A X C X C B X X X A
Poetic Form
Metre 101110 100111 11111 101101 001110 01111010 1101110 110101 101011011 11110 110111 101101 1111 01110010 101111 01001000110
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 490
Words 81
Sentences 8
Stanzas 16
Stanza Lengths 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 25
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 25
Words per stanza (avg) 5
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 23, 2023

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Georg Trakl

Georg Trakl was an Austrian poet. He is considered one of the most important Austrian Expressionists. more…

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